Open Positions

If you are interested in a PhD/Postdoc position in the Power Systems Laboratory, please send your application package including the following documents (all as pdfs) to Prof. Gabriela Hug ():
• Cover letter (including a short explanation why you want to do your PhD/Postdoc in the Power Systems Laboratory)
• CV
• BSc and MSc transcripts
• Research statement (write a 2-page description of a potential project that you would be interested in as a PhD/Postdoc project; the description needs to include a problem statement, why this problem is important and how you would approach the problem)

There are multiple open PhD positions. Specifically, there are three open positions as part of the NCCR Automation (external page nccr-automaton.ch) which are co-advised by Prof. Gabriela Hug at PSL:
 

Optimal Partitioning of Energy Communities (collaboration with Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour at EPFL)

Given the urgent needs to render energy systems sustainable, the penetration of renewable generation in electric power systems is rapidly increasing. The resulting challenges include the variability, intermittency, and uncertainty of renewable resources such as PV and wind generation. Furthermore, the system changes from a highly centralized system with a few large power plants to a highly decentralized system with many distributed energy sources connected close to consumers. The new Swiss Energy Law allows for so called ZEVs (``Zusammenschluss Eigenverbrauch'') which gives prosumers the opportunity to form energy communities and share their own production. The goal of this work is to provide ways to optimally cluster or partition prosumers/grid components into such communities and give them the means to optimally coordinate.